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SLIDING TOP FOR OIL STOVES.

No. 331,316. Patented Deo. 1, 1885.

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JOHN MILNE, OF HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

SLIDING TOP FOR OIL-STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,316, dated December 1. 1885. Application filed March 9.3. 1885. Serial No. 159,837. (No model.) Patented in Canada July 25, 1884, No.19,859.

To all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN MILNE, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Hamilton, Wentworth county, Province of Ontario, in said Dominion, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding Tops for Oil-Stoves, of which the following is a speciication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. Y

This invention relates to that class of stoves having shifting tops, so that a pot, oven, or other article set on the back hole or holes may be easily brought over the re; and theinvention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this speciiication, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved sliding top attached to a stove. Figs. 2 and Sare full-sized details, which will be hereinafter referred to. Fig. 4 is a plan of the main plate andthe movable top detached. Fig. 5 is aplan of the same in position, with the covers removed and the top in its extreme backward position.

Referring now to the details of construction, A represents the main plate of the top, the outer edge of which is intended to be on the same plane as the covers, bridges, Ste. Below this edge is a sunken portion, C, forming the bottom of the flue beneath the oven A', (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and having an open ing, D, substantially square in form. At the opposite sides of the edges E of this opening are formed lugs F, the upper sides of which are a little lower than the under sides of the projections G, so that the plate H,which is Xedly attached to the stove, is held between the projections G and the lugs F, and the edges of said plate I-I thus form guides on which the top plate slides, so that the latter can be moved ,backward or forward, as occasion may require.

At I is shown an inclined web, which joins the sunken portion C to the edge of the plate, and whose top forms the support for the covers, bridges, oven, Sto. At different portions, as at J, this web lhas holes cut in it to form draftbpenings, and at K (see Fig. 3) is shown a recess to receive a pivot, Z, formed on one end of a damper, L, (shown in position in Figs. 1 and 5,) whose other pivot is extended and curved to form a handle, Z', which passes through a hole, M, cast in the web, as shown in Fig. 2.

At N are shown recesses'which receive the curved ends of a bridge, o, which is secured by screws P, or in any other convenient way, and under this bridge is located the damper L, above referred to. By this construction the damper can be readily inserted or removed. With the bridge o removed,the curved end Z' of the damper-pivots can be put through the hole Min the web I and its other end dropped into the recess K in the web on the other side. When the bridge o is secured in place it prevents the damper-pivots from getting out of position. The ledge m on the web I arrests the damper in its downward movement, and the vertical side of the recess K serves to prevent its going too farin the opposite direction. When this damper is in a vertical position and the top plate is in the position shown in Fig. 5, it shuts off the oven or back portion of the top and compels the heated products of conlbustion to pass oif to the sides under whatever vessel may be over the pot-holes 5 but when the damper is turned downward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, some of the products of combustion will pass off toward the back of the stove to heat the oven or vessel placed on that portion of the top. At the back of the sunken portion of the plate is a partially-circular recess, Q, which is made in this form to allow of the use of vessels having sunken bottoms. A portion of this recess is sunk below the rest, as shown at q, for a purpose hereinafter described.

The plate H, which is, as before stated, iX-

edly attached to the stove, has extensions hon 4 each side, which are made wide enough to close the opening D, no matter in which position the top plate may be, and it has on each side ribs h, which close up the opening H beneath the web I when the plate is in the position shown in Fig. 3, and thus prevents the escape ofthe products of combustion which` IOO The metal forming the wall of the tion of the top plate, A, it can be very cheaply made and can be readily fitted to the plate H, formlng, when in position, a very Convenient arrangement of the top plate, whereby it can be made to slide backward and forward on the top of the stove, so that either the pot-holes or the boiler in front or the oven behind can be brought directly over the flame, as may be desired, and that by the use of this top baking fand boiling or washing and ironing may be carried on at the same time, and the heat graded to suit the particular work on hand.

What I claim as new is- 1. The combination, with an oil-stove and w1th the top H and oven thereof, of a single element comprising a sliding top plate having a raised edge to receive the movable-plates, covers, 8vo., a 'sunken portion forming a ue under the oven, and an'opening to receive said top H, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the sliding top plate, A, provided with perforated web-plate I, of the stovetop H, provided with openings H and with ribs h, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 19th day of March, 1885.

JOHN MILNE.

Vitnesses:

R. C. STEvENsoN, J AMES G. INsoLE. 

